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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, JANUARY 16, 1942 WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.) XTEW YORK.—People who send ' questions to radio quiz pro grams have been missing a chance to collect on “Who is the president China's President Chi " a? ” The usual Revered as Fount answer, as OfAncientWisdom is Chiang Kai-shek—the generalissi mo and not the president. Lin Sen, serene and venerated pa triarch, has been president of China for 10 years. He could be called doctor, and he has many honorary titles, but he likes to be called Mr. Lin Sen. Just now, he is casually and obscurely in the news, with word of powerful generals making pilgrimages to his peaceful retreat, not to talk war, but to visit him as they might a priest or physician. He is a benign old gentleman, bespectacled, with a snow-white goatee, a scholar and an artist, wise and humorous and, above all, serene. He is one of the most famous chirographers of China and, so that he may quiet ly practice his art, he made a studio in a ruined garrison, with walls 10 feet thick. There, on bamboo paper, faced with silk, he copies the classics in swift, beautiful brush strokes, school ing himself in their wisdom. Sun Pc, president of the executive yuan, takes care of the merely temporal and practical details of the presidency. Mr. Lin Sen is free to practice wisdom and virtue and impart it to his people in beautiful characters. Mr. Lin Sen was a missionary stu dent in San Francisco’s Chinatown, studied western civilization diligent ly and, returning to China, preached a careful distinction between a civi lization and a culture. He said Chi na must be modernized, and joined Dr. Sun Yat Sen, to that end, but insisted that China would lose its soul if it took only guns and ma chines from the west—that force alone always failed, even when it seemed to be triumphant. He main tained that true morality would in the end prevail even over bombs and bullets. But the latter, he be lieved, were all right in their place and in 1931 he became president, as the advocate of vigorous resistance against the Japanese aggression. His gods have generously answered for him an ancient Chinese prayer: “May your writing wrist be as lim ber as a willow-wythe.” JOSEPH B. EASTMAN used to be a social settlement worker in his young days. It has been apparent that in this he experienced a cer- Joe B. Eastman a tain disillu sionment as to the grand solution, for in his later ‘Natural' as New Transport Boss years he has been a pragmatic lib eral and it is as such that he tackles one of the most important jobs of the war, as chairman of the new office of defense transportation. All he will have to do will be to gear all transport into a working unit, to keep things moving on railroads, air lines, truck lines, inland water ways, coastwise and inter-coastwise shipping lines and pipelines. It was a much simpler job when William G. McAdoo took it over in the first World war, with plane and motor transport negligible. Mr. Eastman, through his long service as chairman of the Interstate Com merce commission and as former co-ordinator of the railroads, has grown into it. Socially minded from his Am herst and Phi Beta Kappa days, he became a hard - working “good neighbor’’ at the South End house of Boston, then coun sel for the Boston Street Rail way employees and later a member of the Massachusetts Public Service commission. When Woodrow Wilson named him to the ICC, he wrote a re gretful letter saying he would like to serve, but there was a bar sinister in his career—he was a Republican. Mr. Wilson laughed that off and Mr. East man has served under five Pres idents. Supreme Court Justice Brandeis had recommended his original appointment. Railroad moguls like him personally and denounce his ideas. He threw a switch on the first Van Sweringen merger proposal in 1927, later on on L. F. Loree’s proposed merger of the Katy and the Cotton Belt with his own Kansas City Southern, and in valuation, rate rise cases, receiverships, recaptures, mergers and the like he has been sharply at odds with the rail barons and definitely aligned with the drive toward firmer governmenta.' control. Senate Progressives got the nselves into a great lath in 1929, prepar ing to fight and di,- for their demand that he be reappointed. But Presi dent Hoover fooled them by doing just that. Washington, O. C. AN INSIDE STORY Here is the inside story on what happened in all the fuss and furore over the Free French seizure of the two tiny North Atlantic islands of St. Pierre-Miquelon. The story illustrates a very im portant point: That U. S.-British for eign policy has got to pull closer to gether in the future, and that state department officials might have thought twice about slapping Brit ish policy in the face—especially at a time when Winston Churchill was sitting in the White House working on plans for closer Anglo-American co-ordination. The crux of the situation was that the radio stations on these two French islands long have been sus pected of giving information to Vichy—and then to Berlin—on Brit ish convoys crossing the North At lantic; also on Britain-bound bomb ers hopping off from Newfoundland. French fishing vessels from St. Pierre-Miquelon cruise all over the Newfoundland banks and are in an excellent position to observe Allied activity in this vital part of the At lantic. More recently, Nazi subma rines have been prowling closer to U. S. shores and it was suspected they might be getting information— or even supplies—from the fishing vessels. So the British gave the nod to General DeGaulle to move into the islands. In fact they even let his as sociate, Vice Admiral Muselier, take three French corvettes to do the job. There was no great secret about it, for Admiral Muselier stopped in Canada to talk to Ca nadian Naval Minister Angus Mac Donald, and also picked up some American newspaper men to wit ness the taking over of the two is- 'ands. ‘SO-CALLED’ FREE FRENCH However, on the morning Admiral Muselier placed the Free French flag on St. Pierre-Miquelon, Secre tary Hull, getting the news at his breakfast table, hurried to the state department and OK’d a scathing statement, castigating the “so- called” Free French. This upset the British considera bly, because they had been encour aging the French people to think of the Free French not as a “so-called” government, but as a government more truly free and representative of the French people than Vichy. Also it upset the Jugoslavs, the Dutch, the Greeks and a lot of oth er “so-called” governments which have been maintaining headquarters in London and have been calling themselves the real governments of their countries—even though in exile.. However, Secretary Hull seemed to be even more upset tha*: the Brit ish. He had made a deal with Vichy’s Admiral Robert in Marti nique a few days before, by which Admiral Robert was to keep an eye on St. Pierre-Miquelon. And he felt this agreement should be kept. So, his Tennessee dander up, Mr. Hull cabled U. S. Ambassador Winant in London to take up the matter with the British government. Ambassador Winant, in turn, went to Malcolm MacDonald, minister of colonies, who was upset that the United States and Britain should be working at cross-purposes, and telephoned his friend Lord Beaver- brook back in Washington to have Churchill straighten the matter out with Roosevelt. By that time, Sam Reber, in the state department, had telephoned R. E. Barclay of the British embassy wanting to know what the British were up to, and every Anglo-Ameri can co-ordinator seemed to be in every other Anglo-American co-ordi nator’s hair. What the President said to his secretary of state is their secret, but in the end Mr. Hull adopted a milder tone toward the Free French and is wotking out a compromise agreement with the Canadians. The crux of the controversy, of course, is that Mr. Hull still be lieves in appeasing Vichy, and the British gave that up long ago. The British say that General De- Gaulle did most of the fighting for the Allied cause in Syria, while Vichy, in resisting, killed many Brit ish troops. So they are going to stick with DeGaulle. But whichever side is right—the British or Secretary Hull—it might pay to work out some teamwork in advance. • • • MERRY-GO-ROUND Lend-lease officials were puzzled by a British request for “horn and hoof meal” manufactured from dead cattle—until they learned it was ex cellent for extinguishing incendiary bombs. Most staggering lend-lease request was for one railroad—complete with locomotives and freight cars. The order has been filled, and shipped off to Iran. Before buying cloth for army rain coats, the quartermaster depot in Philadelphia tests it with a machine that creates an artificial rain storm. For military reasons details can’t be revealed, but the U. S. is pro ducing an anti-aircraft gun that is more powerful and deadly than any now in use in the army. The new weapon is designed to combat strat osphere bombers. A Couple of Good Cracks at Herr Hitler From Germany comes a photograph (left) passed by the propaganda bureau containing the following ad mission: “A German motorized unit stalled by snow on the Eastern front.’’ Thus did Old King Winter take a crack at Adolf. And here is Jacques Soustelle (right), representative of the Free French, taking a crack at Hitler in Mexico City, at ceremony known as the breaking of the “pinata.” As the pinata in this case was an effigy of Hitler, Jacques found new strength in his arm. Singapore, Gibraltar of East, Is Rich Prize The defenses of Singapore, the Gibraltar of the East, are, naturally, military secrets, but this map of the British island fortress gives some idea of the city’s size, its resources and harbor facilities. Raid-free in the first days of the Pacific war, Singapore was attacked repeatedly by Jap bombers but valiantly defended. Martial law was declared in the Singapore area shortly after the first attack by Japanese invaders. Putting Extra Stretch in Rubber Hotel Gets War Wraps We will all have to do without new automobile tires for the present. Next best thing is a retreading job on your old ones, if they are too smooth for safety. At left you see a re-treading operation in progress. A “camel back,’’ or new rubber top, is vulcanized to the old casing to give a new gripping tread. At the right is shown bow a worn-out tire compares with one that has just been given a face lift, or a new tread. The recapped tire is at left; the old “smoothy’ beside it. Completing the job of placing sandbags outside the office windows of Hotel Bossert in Brooklyn. The barriers were installed so the hotel organization could keep functioning in case of an air raid. As Gas Goes on Ration in Hawaii Guards Singapore This censor-approved photo which was received from Honolulu shows Honolulu automobile owners lined up over two blocks on the first day, waiting at the city hall to get their gasoline ration tickets. Note the sand bag barricade ol. each side of the entrance. This is for the pro tection of the armed guards. Lieut. Gen. Sir Henry Pownall, new British chief in the Far East, who succeeded Sir Robert Brooke- Popham. His first job was to stem the Jap invasion of Malaya. CIVILIAN DEFENSE PLANNING I am planning to spend a little while thinking out problems of or ganization. We have, in my depart ment in the Office of Civilian De fense a number of divisions reach ing out through the regional bureaus down to the community level. I am convinced, however, that we need one over-all planning group, and two other groups to meet those needs by the use of every available agency, public and private. This over-all planning group will tie in all the other divisions and use them to the best advantage, besides working closely with the civilian protection organization. The whole picture will be able to meet new needs and un expected demands as well as those situations which already exist. I have always held that a good organization should function in whatever way you planned it to func tion. In this particular case, I think it important for the heads cf the Office of Civilian Defense to keep in close touch with the regional offices and to see as much of different lo calities as possible. The day when I shall be satisfied that my small parUof the Civilian Defense Office will go on, whether I am on hand or not, has not yet come. I feel sure that it will soon be accomplished, particularly with the able leadership heading up the various divisions, and all the joeople who have been my close assistants working with Mrs. Henry Morgen- thau Jr. • • • STUDENT FEDERATION One Sunday morning I left; New York city for Minneapolis, Alinn., for I had promised some time ago to spend a little while at the con vention held there by the National Student federation. This organiza tion is composed of the elected heads of student government bodies and can be of great value in directing the thought and activities of these young college people, many of whom are going to be leaders of their association. I read an editorial written by Dr. Alvin Johnson, the director of the New School for Social Research, in New York city, in their bi-weekly bulletin, and I could not help think ing how valuable a stimulus to young people this type of short article might be. The outstanding thought in it is, that in the past, at the end of periods of great crisis, we have tried to re constitute the past to the future: “The physicists have discovered the possibility of penetrating the black fog of London with infra-red rays. Reason is, after all, a kind of infra-red ray.” ' We should use our reason to un derstand the meaning of the past and to shape our action in the fu ture. We have learned what not to do. Have we the courage and fore sight to begin to build a new order when this crisis is over? • • • TWO WAY PASSAGE Since mentioning Mr. Louis Ad amic’s “Two Way Passage” I have finished the book. I thought it showed keen insight into the various strains which make up th6 United States. Whether his plan for a two- way passage is possible, just as he describes it, or not, only time will show. One thing is sure, this two-way passage must serve to in terpret what we have accomplished in this nation by way of good will and better understanding. This puts upon us in this country a tremendous responsibility to live up to our theories of democracy and make them a reality in every part of our own country. We must live down our prejudices, whate^r they may be, and be sure that we make every act of ours conform to our Bill of Rights, and to the highest ideals of a democratic nation. • • • RELAXATION A few people came in to tea one afternoon. The President worked right through with the prime min ister and others, so we were late for an eight o’clock dinner. The President made up his mind that they had all worked enough and needed relaxation^ so we had a movie, which apparently was just the right thing for the occasion. It was called “The Maltese Falcon,” and as far as I could discover was a mixture between an old-fashioned melodrama and a detective story. I had to work and wasn’t quite sure that I was up to anything so exciting as this movie promised to be. I joined the party at the end of the picture and found everybody completely restored to working capacity. They had really been en grossed in the picture and were then able to turn back and to go to work for another hoc. • or so. • • • IMPORTANT PROBLEMS I spent nearly two hours one morning with some of the officials of the Bureau of the Budget over the estimates for the coming three months for the Office of Civilian Defense. A number of people came to lunch, among them Dr. John Studebaker, education commissioner. He has such an extended program for forums all over the country that I wanted to discuss with him the possibilities which lie ahead in edu cation through forum groups in mat ters relating to civilian defense. Width of Flag Stripes To make a flag consisting of three stripes that appear to be of equal size, colored red, white and blue, the red one has to be 21 per cent wider than the white and the white has to be 10 per cent wider than the blue. BUHIONS Get this quick relief. Lifts shoe pressure, soothes, cushions the sensitive spot. Costa but a trifle. D?Scholls no-puds Search Thyself Search thy own heart; what paineth thee in others in thyself' may be.—J. G. Whittier. due to Constipation / Dr. Hitchcock’s All-Vegetable .(laxative Powder — an intestinal Ionic-laxative—actually tones lazy bowel muscles. It helps relieve that sluggish feeling. Take as directed on label. IS doses for only 10 cents. Large family size 25 cents. Dr. Hitchcock s LAXATIVE POWDER Nation’s School The nation that has the schools has the future.—Bismarck. QUINTUP1EIS relieve misery of CHESTC010S this good old reliable way At the first sign of the Dionne Quin tuplets catching cold—their chests and throats are rubbed with Musterole—a product made especially to promptly relieve distress of colds and resulting bronchial and croupy coughs. The Quints have always had expert care, so mother—be assured of using just about the BEST product mad. when yon use. Musterole. It’s more than an ordinary “salve"—Musterole helps break up local congestion! IN S STRENGTHS: Children’s Mild Musterole. Also Regular and Extra Strength for grown-ups who prefer a stronger product. All drugstores. Reward Is Sweet Patience is bitter, but its fruit sweet.—Rosseau. 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